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May 10, 2019 · “The Professor and the Madman” is the latest fiasco in bad movie history—what was once a dream project for Mel Gibson (who acquired the rights way back in 1998), and meant to be the directorial debut for his “Apocalypto” co-writer Farhad Safinia, has now become a black eye for the two.
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May 10, 2019 · May 25, 2019 Full Review Nadine Whitney Mr. Movie's Film Blog The film is stuffy, sanctimonious, and so wholly riddled with self-indulgence that it has already been consigned to the dust bin...
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- Mel Gibson
- Farhad Safinia
- Fastnet Films
Apr 12, 2019 · A costume drama about a dictionary editor and a crazy man could hardly have gotten a green light without some romance, so the scriptwriters have Eliza and Minor fall in love in an unlikely subplot...
May 25, 2019 · ‘The Professor and the Madman’: Film Review. Farhad Safinia (as P.B. Shemran) makes his feature debut with the troubled 'The Professor and the Madman' featuring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn.
Surprising history of dictionary packs compassion, violence. Read Common Sense Media's The Professor and the Madman review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Farhad Safinia
- Tara Mcnamara
- Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer
The Professor and the Madman limps out as a woefully half-baked and overcooked spectacle that mistakes reality for relevance. Full Review | Feb 21, 2020
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester.